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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING
LIVES WILL BE LONGER

In his time … lives will be longer and things entrust ed for
safe keep ing will not be lost. The wick ed will be
destroyed and nobody will be left who does not like our
Prophet (saas).
(al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 43)

Lives will be longer, and things entrust ed will be
returned to their place.
(Imam al-Suyuti, Signs of the Last Day, Death, and
Resurrection, p. 179)

THE DEAD WILL ENVY THE LIVING
His time will be one of such jus tice that the dead in the
graves will envy the liv ing…
(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 22)
They will over come all the oppress ors and the cruel.
There will be such jus tice in his time that the dead will
envy the liv ing.
(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 68)
The liv ing will wish that the dead we re alive (in order that
they might see the bless ings impart ed to them).
(Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 437)

In describ ing how the Mahdi will appear and make

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